Eighteenth Quotes
71 quotes by 68 authors
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that…
— Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic…
— Carl Sagan
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When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies…
— Alistair Cooke
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There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the…
— Rene Dubos
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this…
— John Herschel
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There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument…
— Morris Sheppard
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In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect…
— Stephen Halbrook
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This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one…
— Samuel Adams
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
— H. L. Mencken
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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace…
— Fredrik Bajer
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The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room…
— Fernand Leger
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I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of…
— Jacques Pepin
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M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the…
— Catherine Asaro
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It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the…
— William McKinley
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If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
— John Cage
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
— George Saintsbury
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova…
— Keith Donohue
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It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together…
— John Keats
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